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The news today that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE will be featured on the Windows Azure cloud platform may give you a big case of déjà vu – after all, haven’t we been here before? Not exactly. Today both SUSE and openSUSE are now generally available as part of the Azure platform, with virtual machines …

“Grizzly” is the codename for today’s release of OpenStack from the OpenStack Foundation, and like its namesake, this release of open source cloud technology will be a strong and powerful cloud solution.

It’s kind of nice when people in your industry look at what you’re doing and like what they see. So when IDC’s analysts examined SUSE’s high availability functionality for SUSE Linux Enterprise and declared it good, we took note. Specifically, IDC analyst Jean Bozman reviewed the addition of the High Availability Extension for SUSE Linux …

Very often, in my dealings within the world of Linux and open source, I get the inevitable questions about the necessity of open source software. These sorts of questions, which are always surprising to me, given the rampant success of software like Apache, Firefox and (on the free software end of the spectrum) Linux, are …

If you have Linux skills, then this is probably the best time to let people know, because those skills could very likely land you a new or better. That’s the word from this year’s annual Linux Jobs Report, put together by the Linux Foundation and jobs board Dice.com. Specifically, 93 percent of hiring managers plan …